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Mexican Aid to Protect Monarchs

Calderon promises funds to stem illegal logging in butterflies' habitat

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 26, 2007 6:10 AM CST

(Newser) – The famous migrating monarch butterflies have a new ally in Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who yesterday said he would devote $4.6 million more to the central Mexican reserve where the butterflies hibernate—and crack down on the illegal logging that threatens the insects' habitat....   Read full story »

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